Register to learn more and follow its Sustainability Performance!

SOURCE: Timberland
DESCRIPTION:Last August, Haiti’s Smallholder Farmers Alliance and global outdoor lifestyle brand, Timberland, planted cotton seeds at a trial site near Gonaives, with the intention to bring cotton growing back to Haiti after a 30 year hiatus. Four months later, the cotton plants are thriving and at various stages of maturing. All 15 varieties being tested will be harvested by late January. Once Haiti’s fourth largest agricultural export, cotton farming faded from ...

SOURCE: Timberland
DESCRIPTION:Timberland last week sent more than 100 of its employees into #Action to support Gather’s mission to end hunger in the Seacoast.
More than 1,000 individuals received healthy ingredients for Thanksgiving-week meals, thousands of spice packets were prepared for Pantry Market customers, the Gather warehouse was organized to prepare for the busy holiday season and floral arrangements were created for Seacoast seniors who receive Gather’s monthly meal ...

SOURCE: Timberland
DESCRIPTION:With its new Fall 2017 collection, global outdoor lifestyle #brand Timberland strives to leave a lighter footprint and bring great-looking, responsibly-made product to consumers around the globe. From everyday packs made with recycled polyester linings to its newest eco-conscious boot inspired by the Earthkeepers® Original, Timberland continues to innovate across footwear, apparel and accessories. Timberland allows men and women to look their best with ...

More than 45 renowned textile, apparel and retail companies-including major brands such as adidas, Dibella, Eileen Fisher, Gap Inc., H&M, IKEA, Lindex, MetaWear, Target and Timberland-have committed or are supporting an increase in their use of Recycled Polyester (rPET) by at least 25% by 2020, it was announced today at Textile Exchange's annual Textile Sustainability Conference, where more than 500 textile and apparel #Leaders have come together to discuss the most important #Sustainability issues ...

Haiti had a bumper crop of cotton 30 years ago, but a combination of politics and policy buried it. Now, Timberland is working on an experiment to bring cotton back to the country and - if it's successful - will purchase as much as 30% of the cotton from this new supply chain.
The post Timberland Will Get Cotton from a Nifty New Supply Chain ' Haiti ' if Experiment Soars appeared first on Environmental Leader.

SOURCE: Timberland
DESCRIPTION:Timberland employees recently lined-up outside the doors of our largest #Conference room to purchase manufacturing samples of footwear, apparel, and accessories from the 2017 line—but this wasn’t your average sample sale. At this sample sale, employees not only score great product at a great price, but all proceeds benefit a local non-profit organization. This highly anticipated #Event is close to the heart of many employees, and is a creative way to put ...

by Colleen VienSOURCE: Timberland
DESCRIPTION:States with robust economies, new jobs, and increased investment all have one thing in common: forward-thinking clean #Energy policies that help businesses plan for the future. Here in the Northeast, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is part of a legacy of clean #Energy leadership, which sets an annual cap for the region’s aggregate greenhouse gas emissions across nine states. The first cooperative effort of its kind, RGGI is a ...

SOURCE: Timberland
DESCRIPTION:Global outdoor lifestyle #brand Timberland believes in activating people to transform the world with powerful tools like #Community service. Through the company’s award-winning Path of Service™ program, first launched in 1992, employees receive up to 40 paid #Community service hours each year to pull on their boots and make a difference.
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the program, Timberland recently kicked off its 25 Days of Service Challenge, an ...

SOURCE: Timberland
DESCRIPTION:Employees of global outdoor lifestyle #brand Timberland pulled on their boots to serve local #Communities worldwide during its 19th consecutive year of celebrating Earth Day. From April – June employees joined #Business partners, #Community members, consumers, and friends at one-day service projects to benefit the Earth. In total, more than 1,400 volunteers from 20 different countries spent over 11,000 hours serving nonprofit organizations.
“At Timberland we are ...

SOURCE: Timberland
DESCRIPTION:Global outdoor lifestyle #brand Timberland today kicked off its 25 Days of Service Challenge, aiming to drive incremental service engagement among employees over 25 #Business days. The Challenge comes as part of the 25th anniversary celebration of the brand’s award-winning Path of Service™ program. Launched in 1992, the Path of Service™ program offers employees up to 40 paid hours each year to serve in their communities. In preparation for the ...

SOURCE: Timberland
DESCRIPTION:Timberland Global President Jim Pisani recently signed the Camber Outdoors CEO Pledge, committing to innovate and transform the active-outdoor #Industry by accelerating women’s participation and leadership. Camber Outdoors, formerly the Outdoor Industries Women’s Coalition (OIWC), is the only national organization dedicated to achieving equality for women in the active-outdoor industries. The CEO Pledge is dedicated to ensuring that gender #Diversity is a ...

VF Corporation the driving force behind North Face, Timberland and Wrangler, is upping its use of ethically sourced #Materials by introducing a new welfare policy and banning the use of angora, fur and exotic leathers.

SOURCE: Timberland
DESCRIPTION:Global outdoor lifestyle #brand Timberland recently concluded its second annual Earth Week Celebration at its Stratham, New Hampshire headquarters. During Earth Week, educational events were held each day to foster a better understanding of Timberland’s environmental footprint as well as the footprint of each employee in their personal lives. With this understanding, employees explored new ways to further drive Timberland’s legacy of protecting and ...

by Brittany LaneSOURCE: Barclays
DESCRIPTION:Originally posted on Unreasonable Impact, created with Barclays
The clothing #Industry is the second largest polluter in the world; only #oil contaminates more. “Fast fashion” emphasizes getting the latest trends from catwalk to consumer as fast and as cheaply possible. This perspective on the clothes we wear every day devalues the materials, mistreats the laborers, and obfuscates the supply chain.
Thread is bringing #Transparency and ...

Join Timberland, Thread and TriplePundit on March 29 at 9 a.m. PT/Noon ET at #TimberlandXThread to discuss the circular #economy of the #fashion industry, and how brands can create social value in the process.

Thread, a Certified B Corporation on a mission to end #Poverty by creating dignified #jobs and responsible, high-performance fabric, published their annual impact report on Friday. In order to engage and inspire a broader audience beyond just CSR professionals, Thread pledged to provide more than a PDF explaining the company's accomplishments in 2016. This iteration is enhanced and interactive with videos, animated stats, and a supply chain map you can zoom into and explore.

SOURCE: Timberland
DESCRIPTION:For outdoor lifestyle #brand Timberland, service permeates the company culture. Through the Path of Service™ program, Timberland provides full-time employees with up to 40 paid hours to perform #Community service each year. Employees who serve all of their 40 hours earn membership in Timberland’s “40’s Club.” To honor this group of dedicated employees, Timberland hosts an annual celebration at its Stratham, NH headquarters. This year the ...

SOURCE: Timberland
DESCRIPTION:In the wake of Hurricane Matthew, a devastating October storm that struck #Communities in Haiti and the U.S., employees of outdoor lifestyle #brand Timberland mobilized to support the disaster relief effort. As a company with a longstanding #Commitment to protecting and restoring the outdoors and supporting #Communities where it lives and operates, Timberland’s Stratham, NH employees raised and donated over $26,000 to the American Red Cross.
The funds were raised ...

SOURCE: Timberland
DESCRIPTION:In November, outdoor lifestyle #brand Timberland kicked off its holiday season of giving at its Stratham, NH headquarters to benefit the local community. Since then, through the company’s Path of Service™ program, more than 100 employees have volunteered at seven events in support of nonprofit organizations in New Hampshire. Approaching its 25th year, Timberland’s Path of Service™ program provides employees with up to 40 paid hours each year to ...

SOURCE: Timberland
DESCRIPTION:Outdoor lifestyle #brand Timberland recently celebrated the close of the ninth consecutive harvest season of its Victory Garden, a plot of fresh fruits, vegetables and flowers outside the company’s Stratham, New Hampshire headquarters. Each year, a dedicated group of Timberland employee volunteers manage and cultivate the 1,000 square foot area of raised garden beds. The fresh flowers and produce are then made available to employees for purchase, with ...

Today, the nonprofit Smallholder Farmers Alliance (SFA) announced two breakthrough innovations being proposed for #agriculture in Haiti. The announcement was made at the Haiti Funders Conference in New York City, the third annual gathering of donors and investors focused on the goal of achieving #Sustainability in Haiti, a country still reeling from the devastation caused by Hurricane Matthew in early October.

SOURCE: Timberland
DESCRIPTION:Following the release of data compiled for its Q2 CSR report, outdoor lifestyle #brand Timberland shared that the company has met and exceeded its 2015 goal to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This achievement is a part of the company's commitment to innovate and operate in an accountable and responsible manner in terms of its products, the outdoors and #Communities around the world. Timberland reports the company has reduced GHG emissions by 53 percent, ...

Timberland employees celebrate the brand’s Serv-a-palooza #Event by joining forces to treat and prevent vision impairment SOURCE: Timberland
DESCRIPTION:As part of Timberland’s annual global Serv-a-palooza #Event and in honor of World Sight Day, an annual day of awareness held in October to focus global attention of the issue of blindness in #Communities around the world, outdoor lifestyle #brand Timberland partnered with a team of eye experts and Volunteer Optometric Services to ...

The Haitian non-profit Smallholder Farmers Alliance (SFA) and its international affiliate, Impact Farming, today launched an appeal for donations to their joint "Haiti Smallholder Recovery Operation" to aid farmers affected by Hurricane Matthew. This initiative will provide targeted support for up to 1,400 farm families in 15 rural communities, starting with emergency #Food and repairs and soon to be followed with help to get seeds in the ground in time for the upcoming planting season.

SOURCE: Timberland
DESCRIPTION:This week, global outdoor lifestyle #brand Timberland joined #Sustainability and #Impact#Leaders from around the world at the 8th Annual Sustainatopia, a global #Event for investors, entrepreneurs, nonprofits, foundations and companies across social, financial and environmental sectors. The three-day conference, which kicked off in Boston, MA on October 9, brought together thought #Leaders from more than 60 countries. Its second year participating in the conference, ...

Today at the 2016 Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting, HP announced it has joined a CGI Commitment to Action with Thread, Timberland, Team Tassy, and ACOP (Association des Collecteurs des Objets en Plastique) to improve conditions at the Truitier landfill in Haiti over a three-year period.

Thread, the leader in responsible fiber and fabric production, today announced a new Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Commitment to Action to address the problem of undignified and child labor in global supply chains, through a targeted effort in Haiti.

SOURCE: Timberland
DESCRIPTION:As a company with a longstanding #Commitment to service, outdoor lifestyle #brand Timberland has found that employee satisfaction and morale are highest when its workers are engaged in #Community service. Timberland employees serve their #Communities often, thanks to the company’s Path of Service™ program that provides employees with up to 40 paid #Community service hours each year. In 2014, Timberland employees served their one millionth service hour and over 77 ...

Timberland honors its Dominican Republic factory employees for #Commitment to excellence and service in their local communitiesSOURCE: Timberland
DESCRIPTION:The Stratham, N.H. based outdoor lifestyle brand, Timberland, strives to make its products responsibly, protect the outdoors and serve its communities. All of these efforts recently converged at Timberland’s factory in the Dominican Republic (DR), where it recognized employee volunteer champions with a unique day-long celebration of ...

SOURCE: Timberland
DESCRIPTION:Service knows no age or boundaries at Timberland, the global outdoor lifestyle #brand with a demonstrated #Commitment to social responsibility. Employee volunteers, who receive up to 40 paid #Community service hours each year, are passionate about serving elderly citizens around the world. From Stratham, NH to Hong Kong, Timberland volunteers bring fun and innovative skills-building to the elderly.
Stratham employee volunteers began volunteering at the local ...

SOURCE: Timberland
DESCRIPTION:Last week, outdoor lifestyle #brand Timberland hosted 25 of Africa’s most talented, emerging #Leaders at its Stratham, NH headquarters to share the company’s values-driven approach to business. Each of the entrepreneurs is a recipient of the prestigious Mandela Washington Fellowship, the flagship program of President Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) that empowers young people through academic coursework, leadership #Training and networking. ...

SOURCE: Timberland
DESCRIPTION:As an outdoor lifestyle brand, Timberland has a legacy of protecting and restoring the outdoors and supporting the #Communities in which it operates. Tree planting plays an important role in this commitment. Since 2001, Timberland has planted 8.7 million trees around the world, empowering thousands of smallholder farmers in the process. For its tree planting milestones around the globe, Timberland was recently recognized by: the Environmental Leader Product & ...

By Leon KayeSOURCE: Timberland
DESCRIPTION:Timberland is a longstanding sustainability leader within the apparel industry. The New Hampshire-based company is a favorite of the outdoorsy crowd, and its shoes are popular not only for their reputation as being sturdy and rugged, but for their enduring status as a #fashion statement as well. As the company learned that more of its stakeholders wanted these products to be manufactured sustainability, Timberland shifted its #Business practices ...

Outdoor clothing company Timberland has set itself a new list of ambitious #Sustainability targets for 2020, including goals to plant 10 million trees and ensure that 50% of #Energy comes from #Renewable sources.

SOURCE: Timberland
DESCRIPTION:At Timberland, there is a strong sense of pride among employees for the company’s established heritage of environmental and social justice, which is rooted in a long-standing #Commitment to service. This dedication to service is still alive today. President Stewart Whitney and the Timberland #Community recently celebrated a group of its employees at a special #Event recognizing the group’s outstanding #Commitment to service with an induction into the company’s ...

Global outdoor lifestyle #brand Timberland announces the national tour of "KOMBIT: The Cooperative," a #documentary film chronicling a five-year project to reforest Haiti in partnership with the Smallholder Farmers Alliance (SFA), a Haitian nonprofit farmer cooperative dedicated to reforesting the country.

SOURCE: Timberland
DESCRIPTION:Timberland Presidential Town Halls for Employees Continue This Week with Two Candidate Visits
This week, Timberland continued its tradition of hosting current presidential candidates during the lead-up to presidential elections, as part of its #Commitment to #Community engagement. On Thursday, January 21, Democratic Presidential Candidate Martin O’Malley visited the Stratham, NH company headquarters, followed by Republican Presidential Candidate Jeb Bush ...